Yankee Magazine

07/16/2010

If you happen to be on the Island of Nantucket next Monday swing by the Nantucket Historical Association and say hi. Bee Shay and I will be each doing a short talk and demo and book signing. It's at 3pm in the 1800 House Garden.

Sorry not much of a blogger these steamy days. My hands have been out straight cutting and gluing. Crazy busy, but that is a good thing. Lizzy will be here in the shop while I am away. Lampshades are flying out of the shop and just trying to keep up.

Hope you saw the Yankee Magazine How to Project. There is to be something in Crafts'n Things in August, maybe it's on the stands now. I'll have to check it out. And another something in Sept's issue of Country Victorian. Guess I should be busy with all this great press. Just keepin my head down. It's been a fun ride. I guess I understand why authors keep doing books, but this one will have to last me for a while.

06/29/2010

Fini and I are featured in the new Yankee Magazine this summer. The new issue is just out and is a wonderful issue. The cover features an amazing Richard Schultz photograph of an island off of Penobscot Bay; it looks like many I sailed to as a kid in Casco Bay. I was known to take our sunfish out for a sail on a windy summer day and head out to one of the many islands. I'd drag my heavy sunfish down my friend Betsy's beach in Falmouth and off I'd go. Never a fear...and off I'd go. How many fond memories of my Maine childhood. Yes, I stayed mostly on the inside of Casco Bay!

And the full circle of life, the issue also features an article by Bill McKibben on the once hardscrabbled Vermont town of Hardwick and their famed cheese makers of Jasper Hill and High Mowing Seeds as well as mentioning the other highlights of the community.

From now on I maybe known as the Cat Lady instead of the Lampshade Lady. Fini my cat loves to wrap around your neck... The nice guy photographer from Yankee came to do the photo shoot of my lamp and shade project. We did the set up and then head shots of me:) He was just about to leave and silly of me, I showed him what Fini likes to do if he has a chance..... wrap around your neck. And he said great, let me shoot it.... famous last words. Oh, well, it is a pretty cute picture of Fini, pretty good for a scrappy stray that hasn't budged an inch since he showed up a year ago April. A real love bug.

P.S. Page 72-73 has a recipe for Rose-Petal Jam. I've been looking all over to buy it. Guess I will just have to start picking my Rosa Rugosa Petals, but they just don't get as big in Vermont's less than acid soil.